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CA: Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fraud
CA: Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fraud

Ventura, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) -  District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that Judy Hein (DOB 07/04/49), of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, pled guilty to two counts of felony workers’ compensation insurance fraud. This case was investigated the California […]
Kansas: Employer Sponsored COVID-19 Vaccines – What Can I Get If, And When, My Employer Sticks It To Me?
Kansas: Employer Sponsored COVID-19 Vaccines – What Can I Get If, And When, My Employer Sticks It To Me?

VACCINE SIDE EFFECTS COMPENSABILITY OVERVIEW.  Vaccines against COVID-19 have arrived and are readily available for Kansans to receive, and the virus appears to be morphing into multiple variants with no immediate end in sight. Many […]
OH: Another Big Year for BWC Special Investigations
OH: Another Big Year for BWC Special Investigations

Columbus, OH (WorkersCompensation.com) - Over the course of 2021, the Special Investigations Department (SID) secured 53 convictions saving the state insurance fund $93,744,327 for those who truly need it. Protecting the state insurance fund, ensuring […]
Staten Island Man Fakes COVID Positive Tests To Get Workers’ Comp Benefits
Staten Island Man Fakes COVID Positive Tests To Get Workers’ Comp Benefits

Albany, NY (WorkersCompensation.com) - New York State Inspector General Lucy Lang announced the arrest and indictment of a Staten Island man who allegedly falsified multiple COVID-19 test results over five consecutive months in 2020 to […]
CA DWC Proposed QME Emergency Regulation in Response to Continued COVID-19 Pandemic is in Effect
CA DWC Proposed QME Emergency Regulation in Response to Continued COVID-19 Pandemic is in Effect

San Francisco, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - The Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announces its emergency regulation for Medical-Legal Evaluations became effective on January 18, 2022 and will expire on July 19, 2022 with two possible 90 […]
Florida Company Cited After Worker Clearing Brush Dies as Temperatures Neared 100 Degrees in National Forest
Florida Company Cited After Worker Clearing Brush Dies as Temperatures Neared 100 Degrees in National Forest

North Port, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - Working in the recesses of Apalachicola National Forest on a July day as temperatures neared 100 degrees, the supervisor of two crews hired to clear invasive plants saw one 42-year-old […]
NJ Supreme Court Reiterates the Liberal Application of Workers' Compensation Act in a Parking Lot Case
NJ Supreme Court Reiterates the Liberal Application of Workers' Compensation Act in a Parking Lot Case

The NJ Supreme Court ruled that an employee’s injuries arose out of and in the course of her employment because the parking lot where she was injured was owned and maintained by the employer, adjacent […]
Entry-Level Commercial Driver Training – The Law is Right Around the Corner
Entry-Level Commercial Driver Training – The Law is Right Around the Corner

If your company’s fleet includes a school bus, dump truck, or any other type of commercial vehicle, February 7, 2022, should be an important date for you. On that Monday, the final rule (49 CFR […]